Marshall Hargrave is a stock analyst and writer with 10+ years of experience covering stocks and markets, as well as analyzing and valuing companies. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, ...

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. Chip Stapleton is a Series 7 and Series 66 license holder, CFA ...

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In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...

Quick take: At the end of March the inflation-adjusted S&P 500 index price was 98% above its long-term trend, unchanged from the previous month. About the only certainty in the stock market is that, ...

Quick take: At the end of September the S&P 500 index price was 68% above its long-term trend, up from 66% above trend the previous month. About the only certainty in the stock market is that, over ...